More than 25 years later, Kerr Smith still remembers the rollercoaster of emotions that came with his pioneering LGBTQ role on Dawson’s Creek .

The actor, who played Jack McPhee on the WB teen soap from 1998 to 2003, admitted the news of his character’s sexuality was initially “a real bummer for me, honestly,” and even made him “very, very scared” for his safety.

“Nobody knew. I didn’t know,” he revealed on the Pod Meets World podcast. “The WB didn’t know, Sony didn’t know, none of the producers knew. It was an idea in [creator] Kevin Williamson ‘s head, that’s it.”

Noting that Williamson wrote Katie Holmes ‘ Joey Potter to be inspired by himself, Smith explained that “nobody was representing his sexuality” on the show when the actor joined the cast at the beginning of S

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